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We love intelligent repetition and its accompanying evolution, and the pairs, trios and groups of similarities resonated with us tremendously in Matisse: In Search of True Painting, the latest and greatest by our friends at Yale University Press. If Matisse were alive today, we think he'd be all about digital cameras that you can change color settings on using the same image with color tweaks and more. We love the photography included showing the progress of The Blue Dress. The evolution of details is exquisite and this is also a lesson for anyone that's a painter-an education in itself. This book screams quality with style and each turn of the page you will appreciate the book that was produced in Belgium-up with European production! We liked that it's dedicated to Matisse's grandson. We learned about him as a person: when Matisse was developing his style, he told his friends that the sailor paintings were painted by a local postman...we adored the pointillism in this work and since she studied painting in college, Peachy can appreciate first hand how much work and patience goes into the placement and the preciseness of those small dots. We greatly admire Matisse's use of color in the still lifes; color and emotion play into the movement of how each painting truly comes alive. It's just beautiful. Our friend the goldfish graces pages 63 and 78-83 and we discovered his love for sea life with the eels and rays as well, which we did not realize before.
We hope you all have been to The Met to see this fantastic exhibit and if not, do make a point to go see it before it closes and while there, enhance your experience and pick up this great book that accompanies the exhibit and will allow you to "visit" it again and again from the comfort of your couch and coffee table. Here's our piece on the exhibit itself:
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Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, “push further and deeper into true painting.” In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse’s working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1906) and Le Luxe I and II (1907–8) through a series of late studio scenes from Vence (1946–48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective.
New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his later paintings help to elucidate Matisse’s complex evolution. In numerous excerpts from letters and interviews, he is revealed as an artist who regularly questioned himself and his methods, a man of powerful intellect who regarded each new painting as an adventure. A significant addition to art historical literature, Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a revelatory study of a seminal figure in 20th-century modernism.
Dorthe Aagesen is Curator and Senior Researcher at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Rebecca Rabinow is Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
272 pages, 203 illustrations, including 150 in full color; bibliography; index
Published by
The Metropolitan Museum
of Art
Distributed by
Yale University Press
Hardcover $50.00
ISBN: 978-0-300-18497-6
Exhibition Schedule
Centre Pompidou, Paris,
March 7-June 18, 2012.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, July 14—
October 28, 2012.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 4, 2012–March 17, 2013.
